I want to change the sound from Alsa to Pulse Audio, but I can’t. Sometimes it’s because I break the Pipewire connection, other times it asks me for a server.
Apparently, I have to uninstall Pipewire to be able to install Pulse Audio?
sudo pacman -R manjaro-pipewire && sudo pacman -S manjaro-pulse
But that said, the above is only an answer to your direct question — which is about a perceived problem — and not a solution to the actual problem.
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So what is the current solution for this case?
Well, I don’t know your audio setup — i.e. which audio hardware is involved, and what usage scenario requires you to switch manually — and I am not exactly an expert on these matters. However, @nikgnomic is our resident audio expert, so perhaps he can provide further advice.
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Thanks
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This approach is not possible. PulseAudio packages must be installed to replace some PipeWire packages
Manjaro has metapackages to switch audio servers:
To replace Pipewire with PulseAudio:
pamac install manjaro-pulse
To replace PulseAudio with PipeWire:
pamac install manjaro-pipewire
To check installed audio servers:
inxi -Aa
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Is it not necessary to remove manjaro-pulse first?
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To replace Pipewire with PulseAudio - pamac install manjaro-pulse
It has been quite a long time since anyone has installed either of these metapackages so I do not know if manjaro-pipewire needs to be removed before installing manjaro-pulse, but pamac will advise if this is needed
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Well, I myself am still on manjaro-pulse, and I’ve never had any problems with it, so I also never thought of changing that. However, given that pipewire has already been the default in Manjaro for quite a while now, I’ve recently been contemplating switching over as well.
I reckon that pacman would certainly throw up a warning if one chooses to replace one with the other, but I didn’t know whether pamac would do the same or just silently remove the incompatible package(s) — I normally always use pacman for things from the official repositories, and pamac for the AUR.
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<pre><font color="#00AA00">pamac</font> install manjaro-pulse <font color="#000000"></font><span style="background-color:#000000"><font color="#00AA00"> ✔ </font></span>
A preparar...
<font color="#FF5555"><b>==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.manjaro.pamac.commit ====</b></font>
É necessária autenticação para instalar, atualizar ou remover pacotes
Authenticating as: fernando
Password:
<font color="#FF5555"><b>==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====</b></font>
A sincronizar bases de dados de pacotes...
Escolher dependências opcionais para manjaro-pulse:
1: paprefs: Configuration dialog
2: pasystray: system tray application
3: pavucontrol-qt: A Qt volume control tool
4: pulseaudio-equalizer: Graphical equalizer
5: pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa: A 15-band equalizer
6: pulseaudio-jack: Jack support
7: pulseaudio-lirc: IR (lirc) support
8: pulseaudio-rtp: RTP and RAOP support
9: pulseaudio-zeroconf: Zeroconf support
Introduza uma seleção (padrão=nenhum)</pre>
This is the problem....which server?
Escolher dependências opcionais para manjaro-pulse: 1: paprefs: Configuration dialog 2: pasystray: system tray application 3: pavucontrol-qt: A Qt volume control tool 4: pulseaudio-equalizer: Graphical equalizer 5: pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa: A 15-band equalizer 6: pulseaudio-jack: Jack support 7: pulseaudio-lirc: IR (lirc) support 8: pulseaudio-rtp: RTP and RAOP support 9: pulseaudio-zeroconf: Zeroconf support
pamac is asking if you want to choose additional optional packages
If you do not need additional packages press Enter to continue install
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Enter a selection (default=none):
Resolving dependencies...
Checking for internal conflicts...
Error: An error occurred while preparing the transaction:
unable to fulfil dependencies:
- removing pipewire-pulse breaks dependency “pipewire-pulse” required by pulse-native-provider
At least the command did not fail because metapackage (manjaro-pipewire) was installed
Try this to install the 3 required packages discretely
pamac install pluseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio bluetooth
pamac install pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth
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pamac install pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio bluetooth
Error: object not found: pluseaudio
compare the two lines
you said you issued:
but the error message said:
This was no copy/paste of what was done.
You made a typo and didn’t copy the actual sequence.
it’s: pulseaudio
not
pluseaudio
ps:
no - you didn’t make a typo - you just copy/pasted the provided command - which included a typo 
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My typo error - command was missing a dash
pamac install pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth
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pamac install pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth
Synchronising package databases...
Updating AUR...
Preparing...
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.manjaro.pamac.commit ====
Authentication is required to install, update, or remove packages.
Authenticating as: Fernando (fernando)
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====
Synchronising package databases...
Select optional dependencies for pulseaudio:
1: pulseaudio-equalizer: Graphical equaliser
2: pulseaudio-jack: Jack support
3: pulseaudio-lirc: IR (lirc) support
4: pulseaudio-rtp: RTP and RAOP support
5: pulseaudio-zeroconf: Zeroconf support
Enter a selection (default=none): 1
To install (6):
pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.12-5 extra 3.5 kB
pulseaudio 17.0+r93+gbe2efb69b-1 extra 1.2 MB
python-pyqt5-sip 12.17.2-1 (Required by: pulseaudio-equalizer) extra 64.6 kB
python-pyqt5 5.15.11-3 (Required by: pulseaudio-equalizer) extra 3.9 MB
pulseaudio-equalizer 17.0+r93+gbe2efb69b-1 extra 33.5 kB
pulseaudio-bluetooth 17.0+r93+gbe2efb69b-1 extra 96.6 kB
To be removed (2):
manjaro-pipewire 20231009-1 (Conflicts with: pulseaudio-equalizer) extra
pipewire-pulse 1:1.4.9-2 (Conflicts with: pulseaudio) extra
Executing post-transaction hooks...
Reloading user manager configuration... [1/5]
Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of user@1000.service changed on disk. Run “systemctl daemon-reload” to reload units.
Reloading device manager configuration... [2/5]
Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate... [3/5]
Reloading system bus configuration... [4/5]
Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of dbus.service changed on disk. Run “systemctl daemon-reload” to reload units.
Compiling GSettings XML schema files... [5/5]
Transaction completed successfully.
I didn’t notice the error until later, and then I corrected it. But it didn’t work.
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But the command did work. 
What do you mean with: … it didn’t work?
Reboot system to unload systemctl units for pipewire-pulse and load systemctl units for pulseaudio
If PulseAudio is not working as expected please post more information:
systemctl --user -l --no-pager status pulseaudio.socket pulseaudio.service
inxi -Aa
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